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Exporting color separations

Exporting color separations - Illustrator Tutorial

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Exporting color separations

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to export color separatoins. And again, this is something that you might do if you're handing off the file to a commercial print house. And, the idea is that you want an independent separation for each and every ink. So, in my case, I've got three ink job right here. Three spot colors in all. I'm going to need a total of three separations. And, to create those, I'll go up to the File menu, and once again choose the Print command. Or, you can press "Control+P" or "Command+P" on the Mac. Any time that you want to send a job out to a commercial printer, you want to set the printer to Adobe PDF as opposed to some local printer. And then you want the medium size to be set to custom. Now, if you end up with something like this where the page size is a little bigger than the artwork then you can switch it back so that it's exactly the same size as the art by switching to a different page size. I'll just go ahead and choose A4. And then you want…

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